- Chloe Sullivan: So she just stripped down right in front of you? Lana Lang in all her glory...
- Clark Kent: Most of her glory. She said everything I ever wanted to hear but it didn't seem like she knew what she was doing.
- Chloe Sullivan: At least you'll have something nice to daydream about in Saturday detention.
- Lex Luthor: This isn't you.
- Lana Lang: Why? Because I'm not doing exactly as I'm told? Because I'm not stuck in a corner hiding in a book? For once I am not afraid of life and nobody can handle it 'cause you all prefer the insecure little girl. Well, I'm sick of her and all of her talk about her dead parents.
- Martha Kent: [sitting at Jonathan's bedside] Did I ever tell you about the first time I ever saw him?
- Clark Kent: No.
- Martha Kent: He came to Metropolis U to take a finance course, and, uh... he was sitting by a fountain all denim and flannel, eating an apple. And, um, I asked to borrow his notes. He didn't know that I was the note-taker for the class; he still doesn't.
- Clark Kent: You were sly, mom.
- Martha Kent: He was... so cute, so I... I asked him for his notes, and he... just handed over his notebook without even asking my name, and I said "How can you be so sure I'll bring it back?", and he said "I prefer to believe in people."
- Clark Kent: That sounds like dad.
- Martha Kent: And I remember looking at him, completely embarrassed because I was thinking the dumbest thing. I was thinking "God, I hope he marries me." I still think that. Every day, there's a part of me that says "God, I hope he marries me."
- [Martha breaks down into tears]
- Clark Kent: Lana, this is crazy.
- Lana Lang: That's the point. If life doesn't make you crazy then, why bother living it? I know that's how I want it.
- [last lines]
- Lana Lang: Did I say something embarrassing to you that I should know about?
- Clark Kent: [smiles] No.
- Lana Lang: Good. Good. So how does it feel being on the top of the world? Or at least Smallville.
- Clark Kent: [pauses] I feel free.
- Chloe Sullivan: Dr. Hamilton had a copy of this book in his barn.
- Clark Kent: "The Nicodemus Diary".
- Chloe Sullivan: It's a firsthand account of Smallville's first mystery. In 1871, the whole settlement went postal before they even had a post office.
- Pete Ross: Nice to know Smallville was still whack before the meteors got here.
- Chloe Sullivan: Yeah. In the diary, they talk about a flower; the settlers called it Nicodemus. Said it liberated repressed feelings, sent them into rages, then fever, and finally... well...
- [Chloe lets the sentence hang]
- Clark Kent: All right, well where can we find this flower?
- Chloe Sullivan: Well, see, that's the glitch. After the massacre, the cavalry torched the whole settlement and wanted to make sure whatever caused it wasn't gonna spread. The flower's been extinct for over a hundred years.
- Clark Kent: Well, what does Hamilton have to do with this? Isn't he a geologist?
- Chloe Sullivan: With a meteor fixation.
- Pete Ross: We tracked down this paper he wrote six years ago.
- Clark Kent: Metropolis University Press?
- Chloe Sullivan: I think this is the last straw. In it, he postulates that meteor rocks can be used to irradiate dormant plant cells.
- Clark Kent: So you think Hamilton pulled a "Jurassic Park" and brought back the Nicodemus.
- Pete Ross: And now he's trying to cover it up.
- Lana Lang: Not going to class, Clark?
- Clark Kent: Not really feeling up...
- [turns around to face her and notices her minimal outfit, expression turned stunned]
- Clark Kent: ... to it.
- Lana Lang: What's the matter?
- Clark Kent: Nothing. It's just a change.
- Lana Lang: [twirls] You like it?
- Clark Kent: Um, I think the operative word is "gulp."